How To Optimise Your Mindset For Endurance Performance - Dr Carla Meijen
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- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min read
In this episode, we have Dr Carla Meijen, lecturer and researcher in sports psychology at St Mary’s University.
One thing that has always stood out to me about elite performers, the best of the best, is their psychological resilience. Whatever happens during a race or their approach during their training and preparation, they have the ability to remain focused on the main goal and not talk themselves out of winning. In this episode, Carla and I discuss the main psychological determinants of endurance performance, different self-talk strategies during races, and how developing a clear variety of goals can help you move between racing strategies when the unexpected occurs.
In this episode, we discuss:
1:07 - The psychological factors which make up endurance performance
6:00 - The importance of motivation
14:20 - Self-talk
20:14 - Goal setting and goal flexibility
22:20 - The RESIST programme
25:40 - Strategies for improving self-talk
28:44 - Programming difficult sessions to test the self-talk strategies.
32:03 - The ability to stay present and re-focus
38:02 - How endurance psychology is multifactorial
41:55 - Race anxiety from past poor performances
48:15 - Tips to improve psychological endurance performance
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